I assume the ferrets are victor-or-thessaly, because they're the ones who have ferrets, but I wouldn't put money on that.

For the record--Thessaly is the ferrets, I'm the remote-controleld robot zombies. Both are intended for humour's sake only.

I always thought the robots were MM, huh, color me stupid.

So did I, ND. I have no idea why, though. (I try not to think too hard about that kind of thing, because then when I'm wrong I feel really stupid.)

For the record: Don't care about pseudonyms that aren't being used maliciously, though they do occasionally make me feel a little foolish for not knowing who they are. Am not at all interested in defining "maliciously." Think the daily deathmatch announcements are on-topic for Press.

I think it should be noted here that Cindy only posted as "Lurkers" as anything other than lurkers after someone brought up their discomfort for the sockpuppet psueds. And, as I think she said, she posted subsequently as "Lurkers" because that's what she happened to be logged in as.

Granted, as someone who just changed from one psued to another (that includes my real first name, fyi), I'm expresssing some solidarity here, I think.

Oh, and since I'm in here, the deathmatch announcements drive me batshit. I try to just deal with it and skip though.

Oh, and since I'm in here, the deathmatch announcements drive me batshit. I try to just deal with it and skip though.

I'm seriously curious and not being snarky: are there some kind of internet connections that small posts like the deathmatch announcements are actively a problem for? Because I only have (admittedly, pretty good) dial-up at home, and it's just a "scroll past it" issue if I'm not interested.

I always thought the robots were MM, huh, color me stupid.

Heh. I actually created them to wish MM happy birthday, and occasionally take them out for a spin.

Oh, and since I'm in here, the deathmatch announcements drive me batshit. I try to just deal with it and skip though.

I'm seriously curious and not being snarky: are there some kind of internet connections that small posts like the deathmatch announcements are actively a problem for?

My irritation with the deathmatch posts is that, while the original deathmatches, way back, were a fun way to kill an afternoon, the current deathmatch feels like it's been going on forEVER, and will never end.

When I log in and see new posts in Press, I immediately think something important is going on -- some people do post Important Life Stuff (the kind that most people put in Beep Me) in Press, and I want to catch that.

But, really. Month after month after month of deathmatch announcements have really gotten old.

There are several reasons for the deathmatches taking so long. They include -

• server problems that resulted in a long (4 weeks, maybe) hiatus
• hurricaine Juan and the subsequent power outage
• massive blizzard
• going out of town, twice

I'm very sorry that you are being irritated by this. I am trying to find a workable way around this.

It seems like the Non-deathmatch-y people find the Press posts irritating, and the Deathmatch-y people find them useful. Can there be a middle ground? Could Elena be given, temporarily, a deathmatch notcie thread?

Elena brought up using Atlantic Canadians as a the notice thread. I don't like to see the thread go that way, and besides, we'd do discuss this season of Angel, so UnAms could possibly get spoiled. But I have told her that my objections are mild, if it's the only solution.

I also suggested to Elena that maybe if she limited her Deathmatch posts to one a day in Press, that was edited to mark where things stopped and started. Is that an acceptable middle ground?

Or you know, we could put it to a vote, and put the whole thing to bed.